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I’m not a troll but it’s unsurprising you are quick to hate considering your opinions toward mankind.

You’re literally avoiding answering the hard questions and instead throw up shit like that moth thing. That is standard troll behavior. Just because you want to believe you’re not a troll doesn’t mean you aren’t one. Go on, prove me wrong, do the non-troll thing and actually answer my questions instead of tip-toeing around them.

A country is not their government, their history is not their current posturing, the action of their military is the expression of their local communities.

Technically they are. The country is the governing body set up by the people that make up said country. In the case of Russia that government is corrupted and that government is to the detriment to its own people and now also a detriment to the surrounding countries. I am sympathetic to the struggles of the average Russian, but unlike you I don’t live in la-la land where everyone gets to have and eat their cake. They’ve let their country slip into corruption and ultimately that is on them because we can’t fix that without an even greater conflict. They’ve let their government get corrupted and the actions of that corrupt government has brought sanctions upon them.

And I get that not all of them are to blame, but we get back to the questions you deliberately avoided. Are we not supposed to sanction Russia and let them have their way with Ukraine? If we should sanction Russia and there is a costly way to make sure those sanctions wouldn’t overreach, do you want your tax money to be spent essentially on the well-being of Russians. Even if you know you’re likely to gain little to no benefit from that spending?

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I was making what I thought was an obvious equivalence between your realistically impossible to answer question to the impossible question an insecure partner blurts out.

Are you asking what value I give money? What price I put on human lives? If I would give up everything to keep the innocents out of harm?

You see your question is way too broad.

But of fucking course I’d be willing to spend more not to impart sufference in innocent strangers, that’s the point of most things people do daily when it comes to being an ethical being. Would you enjoy saving money if Police would simply arrest everybody in a 2Km range from any murder location and call it a day?

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Are you asking what value I give money? What price I put on human lives? If I would give up everything to keep the innocents out of harm?

Then give those maintainers your money to get them out of Russia and help them get a different citizenship so they wouldn’t be affected by the sanctions. If you don’t have that money start a go-fund-me. After-all you said you’d give up everything to keep the innocent out of harm.

My question isn’t about money, it’s about how far you’re willing to inconvenience yourself to help those unfairly treated Russians. The tax thing is just the bare minimum anyone could do because we’re paying taxes anyway. It takes no extra effort on your part, it’s just a question of where your tax money gets spent. Your quality of life drops but at least you know the wrong Russian didn’t get sanctioned. Is that the inconvenience you’re willing to make?

I don’t see you making any inconveniences. I don’t see you making any effort beyond being outraged on the web. But feel free to prove me wrong.

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I never said I’m willing to give up everything…

Anyway, your “arguments” boil down to a shifting grey area between, “they deserve it” and a very dispassionate “there’s no alternative”.

It’s simplistic and dangerous. I hope you are young.

Have a day.

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